Today's Word "Eruction"
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eruction \ee-RUHK-shehn\ - The expulsion of stomach gases through the mouth; a belch, a burp.
"Jason was well known for his loud, ill-timed eructions which he would inevitably let loose during pauses in boring, long-winded lectures by his social studies teacher."
Today's word comes from Latin eruct-are "belch out" based on . e(x) "out" + ructare "to belch, emit." In Italian today it is "eruttare" and, in Spanish, "eructar." The verb stem ruct- comes from Proto-Indo-European reug- which turned up in English as "reek" via Old English reocan "to smoke, reek." In Lithuanian it emerged as raugeti "belch" and Greek as ereugomai "to vomit." In Swedish it is "rapa" and Norwegian "rype."
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